Plunder Panic
Great high-intensity action for you and up to 11 of your friends, local or online! Brings back the nostalgia of the couch multiplayer days, even when you can’t be in the same room as your friends!
– Real player with 108.1 hrs in game
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Its like the line of coke you need to snort before playing, addictive af.
Neither I nor the developers recommend or endorse the use of cocaine
– Real player with 40.1 hrs in game
Retro Tank Party
Indie. Retro. Tanks. Party. What more do you want?
Indie
David Snopek via his indie studio Snopek Games put his heart and soul into this game, listens to community feedback, facilitates community play sessions, and has made a solid ,b.retro style game. Unlike “Triple A” games that are released with a thin veneer of flashiness but no soul, this is the 180º opposite. Everything about this game screams care, craftsmanship - and collaboration with the community.
Retro
– Real player with 31.0 hrs in game
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For those of us that miss the old tank games, Retro Tank Party hits that nostalgia quite nicely while also offering some modern improvements: online!, tracing bullets!, various game modes!, etc!.
For players not familiar with the old tank games, they’ll still be up and running fast.
Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten some chances to play the beta and, now, the released version. It’s been a lot of fun and I have been getting better… but so too, unfortunately, have others. This is a problem but perhaps not the game’s. Still it’s fun to figure out various little strategies.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Tinker Racers
This game far exceeded my expectations!!
I agree with someone who wrote a review saying “it’s almost like stealing from the developers”. It is very cheap for what it delivers (in fact I still don’t get the price so low, maybe because it is in Early Access …).
After unlocking all the tracks, we spent a lot of time having so much fun at Free For All Mode! 4 people playing it is insane!
The lack of an online multiplayer would be a serious problem for a game like this if it weren’t for Steam’s Remote Play Together. Luckily because of this steam feature we were able to have a lot of fun playing online, so maybe that can be disregarded. If you are playing on the keyboard, just remember to previously agree on which keys each player of the remote play together will play (after all you are supposed to be playing on the same keyboard via stream … it took us a while to realize this).
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
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It’s extremely difficult to speak ill of this game considering the price it charges. It’s dirt cheap, it’s almost like stealing from the developers. And what’s in it for you?
As the game itself says in its description, it is essentially a clone of MicroMachines. It is essentially the same game, with the same principles: you use small (toy) cars, running on tracks that seem to have been assembled by children in their rooms, to play against other cars. If the distance between the first place and the other cars is too great, the cars that touch the edges of the screen are defeated and disappear, until there is only one car left on the track. Then, you win the round, and repeat this for 5 more times.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Bub Block
amazing game really enjoyed ratchet gladiator with friends
– Real player with 13.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Trenchfoot
Trenchfoot is just good clean local multiplayer fun for up to 16 friends. If you enjoy old-school multiplayer games like Bomberman, you’re going to love Trenchfoot!
Included in the current build of Trenchfoot is:
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Support for up to 16 local players
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9 powerups and items
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Players can place blocks. Blocks add a defensive aspect to the game. Blocks will stop explosions from spreading and can be used to shape dymanic ones.
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Flood explosions, these explosions will fill the space available to them. They flood around corners, scurry through bottlenecks and expand into open spaces.
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Players place tiles during the gameplay modifying the level
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Destroyable blocks are the standard destroyable blocks players can place these. They create temporary barriers, and also continue to add powerups during gameplay.
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Water tiles are a player placeable tiles that stop explosions from spreading, but do not hinder player movement
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Pipe tiles are a player placeable tile that funnel explosions and players through them. If an explosion gets into a pipe it will be directed through it until it exits. Once it exits it will continue to expand again until its magnitude is expended.
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Smaller maps built to support as few as 2 players with larger ones available for up to 16 players.
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The game now has music! It’s a sweet upbeat happy tune made by a talented artist named Nom.
Trenchfoot is a local multiplayer only game. There is no single content in the game.
Project:Pong
This game is much more fun than many of the big budget high detail graphics AAA games. It brings the same kind of vibe as playing a game of Foosball or table tennis. Especially when playing against friends at home or online with Steam Remote Play Together. Playing against the computer is really nice too. And it’s hard enough to stay entertaining. Especially when playing the game modes that the developer created that are different than standard Pong. The simple graphics keep the game clean. In the matter that when you lose or win a point, you know exactly what happened and why. Unlike a lot of games where you sit there wondering what went wrong, or being mind boggled about what the game just did that just didnt seem right. I paid 1 euro and felt like I could easily share my love for the game by gifting the game to a couple Steam friends. One of them is TheJoyOfPuzzles on Twitch. He fell in love right away and played the game on stream for hours
– Real player with 112.3 hrs in game
Exactly the face-lift that classic pong needed. I am pretty sure that I am just scratching the surface of the growing complexity of the levels. There is a tough learning curve to just get competent at basic pong if you’re not already. totally worth it to get through the initial challenge and start conquering some of the later levels. Worth at-least a dollar. No question!
– Real player with 41.7 hrs in game
Thief Town
Thief Town is a perfect example of a indie concept gone right. It is one of the funnest local multiplayer games for my PC. There are not that many, but Thief Town stands out. It becomes a real blast as you franticly find and kill your mates, and the other gamemodes are creative, and don’t dum-down the experience. As a nice fresh concept, it is only local multiplayer. I am fine with that, the four-kids-cramped-in-a-basement gaming sleepovers I have settle the need for others. Grab some friends, get some drinks, and start stabbing! Soundtrack not only fits, but is 8-bit dubstep. If you like getting your friends for monaco, or even a nintendo game like smash or mario party, you will LOVE this! I heard the app doesn’t work that well, but I have controllers.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
This is godawfully bad and should be burned with fire. No, sorry. Fire is too good to deserve contact with this game, and frankly it’s done a lot for the human race.
It’s an 8-bit wanna be E.T. Atari cartridge ripoff. Except that the developer of E.T. had vision.
It’s 2016 and the developer thought it would be a good idea to try to recreate the early 1980’s level of video gaming. Realistically, nobody goes out and says, I want to do my job, but at a level that’s 36 years more terrible than the status quo. Apart from the developers of Thief Town!
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game